Martha Serpas writes: “Oaks that have been killed by saltwater intrusion stand on ridges in the marsh. They are like whitewashed grave markers. Even in trawling season, when the air and water seem full of abundance, the trees are reminders of a lost abundant past. The emotional content of that past, the events, the history—that is, the human experience—is irrelevant and that knowledge of our irrelevance continues to break into our present, ‘forking the darkness.’” This is volume ten of “The Stratigraphic Archives” series.